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echo "Linux blog" | nc blogger.com 80: November 2010

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Echo "Linux blog" nc blogger.com 80. Technical adventures of a Linux consultant. Monday, November 22, 2010. Booting an lvm snapshot of /. I’ve also found I do keep wanting to try stuff, which would be nice to be able to roll back to a known state if things turn bad. So, recently I investigated how to create LVM snapshots of the root filesystem (/). The procedure below works for me. but if you don’t understand it, don’t try this on an important system. Here is my basic howto:. 1 If the snapshot gets full,...

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echo "Linux blog" | nc blogger.com 80: May 2009

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Echo "Linux blog" nc blogger.com 80. Technical adventures of a Linux consultant. Tuesday, May 05, 2009. Memory usage - 2009.1 with KDE4. Mdkapplet (14 MB), net applet (19MB), redhat printer config tool (8MB), codina update (20 MB when running. stops sometime after login). I wonder if something can be done to make these tools use less ram.  I  like net applet, but can’t have it using that much ram on a low end system. I removed some things:. In: /etc/xdg/autostart, I removed:. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom).

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echo "Linux blog" | nc blogger.com 80: Google authenticator TFA for Android - Backup and OATH

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Echo "Linux blog" nc blogger.com 80. Technical adventures of a Linux consultant. Monday, September 08, 2014. Google authenticator TFA for Android - Backup and OATH. I’ve been a fan of using multi/two factor authentication for anything that matters. Thankfully, many sites these days are beginning to support using MFA, and many of them have standardized on OATH,. Google Authenticator, is one such OATH client app, implimenting TOTP (time based on time passsword). Loose your way to generate your TOTP. Sdcard...

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echo "Linux blog" | nc blogger.com 80: February 2014

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Echo "Linux blog" nc blogger.com 80. Technical adventures of a Linux consultant. Saturday, February 22, 2014. In New Zealand,  VDSL internet is available from a number of providers.  Snap! Is the provider I use, and they offer some very cool Fritz! Box VDSL modems.   I have the Fritz! Box 7390, and the other one on offer is the cheaper Fritz! The first thing to note is, Snap! Does not ship the right cable for connecting the Fritz! Get the Y cable from Snap! Here is the email I sent to Snap! In the above ...

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echo "Linux blog" | nc blogger.com 80: a portable, offline, distributed wiki setup

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Echo "Linux blog" nc blogger.com 80. Technical adventures of a Linux consultant. Saturday, May 28, 2011. A portable, offline, distributed wiki setup. I’ve found recently, that I keep having need of somewhere to write stuff down and that works off line, with updates from different computers. As I’ve been using git. Talking about VCS-backed wikis, ikiwiki. Is a really nice one. The developers behind it also offer a hosted version. 29 May 2011 at 17:05. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom).

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echo "Linux blog" | nc blogger.com 80: June 2009

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Echo "Linux blog" nc blogger.com 80. Technical adventures of a Linux consultant. Tuesday, June 02, 2009. Screen shots in the package manager. Here, I want to talk about my ideas for screenshots:. Requirements I’ve thought of:. Stored in srpms and owned by the package maintainer. Available from the mirrors for the package manager application like rpmdrake. Ability to be shared by other distributions. Everyday users able to submit screen shots to package maintainers. Easy to add to packages. So, these step...

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echo "Linux blog" | nc blogger.com 80: August 2009

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Echo "Linux blog" nc blogger.com 80. Technical adventures of a Linux consultant. Monday, August 17, 2009. Improving pxe boot menus. Mandriva has a fairly good tool for building and managing pxe configuration. It’s called drakpxelinux. This is the tool that got me started with network booting and although it has some fairly rough edges, worked fairly well. This really makes things a lot easier to use and looks quite professional. We have menu items for:. Red Hat with kickstart. Running off the network:.

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echo "Linux blog" | nc blogger.com 80: November 2009

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Echo "Linux blog" nc blogger.com 80. Technical adventures of a Linux consultant. Saturday, November 21, 2009. Happy first time Linux users, with Mandriva 2010. I recently setup a new computer for a friend, who’s win98 computer had broken some time ago. Purchased a really cheap new PC, dual core E5300 cpu, 2GB ram, on board everything, with sata disk and dvd writer, plus an 18.5 inch screen, came out to $630 NZD. He received the machine today and was rapped. Plugged his printer in and it just worked!

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echo "Linux blog" | nc blogger.com 80: Mandriva 2010 issue of Linux Identity

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Echo "Linux blog" nc blogger.com 80. Technical adventures of a Linux consultant. Tuesday, January 26, 2010. Mandriva 2010 issue of Linux Identity. For the latest 2010 release, I spent quite some time working on all the articles for the Mandriva 2010 issue of Linux Identity magazine. Indeed, writing articles/doc is a good way to find bugs or things not evident or convenient to explain. If something to hard to explain, then theres a problem is the UI or workflow of the application. 1 February 2010 at 02:16.